"Can you see what is above the sky?" Sun Wukong asked Tang Xuanzang with a dead branch in his mouth. His whole body was lying on a piece of gravel, looking like a rough tomb that had not yet been buried. The remaining light of the setting sun
Next, I made this monkey look a bit deep.
"Above the sky? Do you want to talk about the upper realm where immortals and Buddhas live?" Tang Xuanzang was standing on the side. He wanted to pull Sun Wukong up. The monkey looked very different from usual now, with an indescribable gloominess.
The feeling, coupled with the gravel and the setting sun, made this feeling even stronger, making him very unaccustomed to it.
"The sky above is not necessarily what you said. There are more and more unexpected magical places. Just like the vast starry sky or even wider than the starry sky." Sun Wukong has already figured out what the mysterious man named Xue is.
Prepare him for what he is going to do. But he is not disgusted. There is no way out anyway. Anyway, there are chess pieces inside and outside, so just follow the path that suits your eyes and go to the dark side. At least you will die, but at least you can keep some reputation.
"What on earth do you want to say?" Tang Xuanzang's voice was full of fatigue. He told Sun Wukong everything he encountered in the dungeon, including what Xiaoxiao told him. But Sun Wukong was silent at first, and then started to say this again.
It was a confusing thing, it was getting dark, and he still didn't understand what Sun Wukong was talking about.
"You still don't understand? You have heard the saying that there are people outside the world. Now put this sentence into the words you just said and think about it carefully. I am tired, so I won't rush today." After finishing speaking,
, Sun Wukong closed his eyes and stopped paying attention to Tang Xuanzang. After a while, he started snoring.
Tang Xuanzang had no choice but to sit next to Sun Wukong. After a while, he also lay down, but he did not sleep. Instead, he looked at the starry sky above his head. His mind was filled with Duan Xiaoxiao's instructions to him and what Sun Wukong had just said.
the words said.
Sun Wukong told Tang Xuanzang that in this world, "There are people outside the sky, and there are people outside the sky." This sentence seems out of place in Duan Xiaoxiao's words. It seems to have nothing to do with the "game" Duan Xiaoxiao said.
Is this monkey playing tricks on me?
Tang Xuanzang immediately shook his head again. This monkey would not play tricks on him like this. When he said this, he seemed to be hesitant to speak, as if he could not speak directly and could only speak in such a roundabout way.
"There is a sky outside the sky? There is someone outside the world? The sky? Stars? Vast than the starry sky? In the middle of the game?" With these doubts, Tang Xuanzang's mind became heavier and heavier, and his consciousness finally subsided and fell into a dream. He fell asleep.
In the dream, these words still lingered around Tang Xuanzang. Suddenly, a murmuring voice sounded in the dream: Xuanzang, don't think too deeply, just take the literal meaning, just take the literal meaning...
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Just this murmur made Tang Xuanzang suddenly wake up from his dream, covered in cold sweat. He dreamed that he was no longer a person, but a wooden sculpture that could not move or speak, standing on a chessboard, being moved by a huge hand.
He moved it at will, but there was a fog on the opposite side, but he was sure that behind the fog there was also a big hand manipulating a wooden sculpture similar to his to play chess.
piece?
literal meaning?
Looking at the sky, it was still dark. Tang Xuanzang didn't know how long he had slept. When he lay down again, he found that he could no longer fall asleep and his mind was very active.
"There is a sky outside the sky, doesn't it refer to the upper world? Could it be said that there is a more mysterious place beyond the upper world? There are people outside the world, literally..."
Until the sky turned white, Zhu Gangxi and Sha Wujing walked over cautiously. Sun Wukong got a huge fruit tree from somewhere. The four masters and disciples had breakfast and headed west.
On this day, I finally walked out of Pingding Mountain and saw a small town. It is hard to believe that there is a quite prosperous small town on the edge of Pingding Mountain where the monsters live. Could it be that those monsters would not come here?
Nuisance?
Only Sun Wukong knew that Golden Horn and Silver Horn must have restrained the monsters under their control. They came to kill Tang Xuanzang, not to harm ordinary creatures in the lower world.
The most exciting thing is that Pig Gang has a hyena. This pig demon has long been so greedy that he can't stand it. If he can't eat meat, it's good to eat some tofu. Oil and salt are better than eating fruit every meal, right?
"Find an inn to stay. The bald donkey needs to be treated for his illness. It's not worth it if he dies of illness just before he reaches the place." Sun Wukong said, taking out an ingot of gold from his arms and placing it on the pig's head.
In his hand, this thing was one of the countless things he captured when he met the demon slayer, and there were many of them.
"Okay, Senior Brother, I will make the arrangements, don't worry!" Zhu Gang took the gold and took Tang Xuanzang and Sha Wujing into the town to find an inn. No one paid attention to Sun Wukong.
.This is the same as before. Whenever he goes to a new place, Sun Wukong will always walk around by himself first. Tang Xuanzang and others have long been used to it.
I don’t know where Sun Wukong went, but Zhu Gangxi, Tang Xuanzang and Sha Wujing quickly found a good inn in the town. Zhu Gangxi and Sha Wujing feasted on a large table of vegetarian noodles, but only Tang Xuanzang could eat it.
Absent-minded.
"Master, I asked the waiter. There is a medical clinic not far from our place. I will take you there after dinner and let the doctor take a good look at you. You have suffered too much along the way.
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Zhu Ganghe expressed his concern for Tang Xuanzang nonchalantly, which was another kind of flattery. Tang Xuanzang no longer cared. He was very curious to see a group of people gathered in a corner of the inn, and from time to time some people exclaimed in low voices.
When I came out, I didn’t know what I was doing.
"Don't look at it, Master, it's just ancient stone chess gambling, a bunch of tricks to cheat money."
"Ancient stone chess?" Tang Xuanzang had never heard of it. Hearing this, he stood up and leaned closer, wanting to take a look.
The chess players are a middle-aged man and a young man. The chessboard is black and white, but the chess pieces are small stone sculptures. They look like soldiers, generals, beasts and chariots, which look like a battlefield.
Tang Xuanzang had heard of ancient stone chess, but he was not very good at playing it, but it did not prevent him from understanding the advantages and disadvantages of the current chess board. Ten black chess stones, five white chess stones, and it was obvious that black chess had the absolute upper hand. The boy
What makes people scratch their heads is the white chess piece they hold, which seems to be losing.
"Silly boy, you want to win money by playing like this? This is the way to go!" A voice interrupted Tang Xuanzang's thoughts. It was Zhu Gangha. This pig demon was very good at playing chess and often boasted about his few advantages.
Not to mention, even if it was a gambling game, even if there were locals here, and even if there were evil people here, Zhu Ganghei's momentum was not something ordinary people could mess with. So, the young man really followed Zhuganghei's command.
He turned defeat into victory in one step, reversed the situation, and took away the gambling funds. Of course, more than half of the gambling funds went into Zhu Gangxi's pocket.
"Master, okay, let's go to the hospital. This money is enough to treat you, Master, Master?" Zhu Ganghe said with a smile, but found that Tang Xuanzang was still staring at the chessboard with a pale face.
He didn't move at all, as if he was frozen.
After calling seven or eight times in a row, I heard Tang Xuanzang muttering to himself: "Is this the situation? Is this the situation where there are people outside?"